Sentence examples for big metaphor from inspiring English sources

It's this big metaphor, and it's very physical.

And of course it's a wonderful big metaphor, alienation.

Describing his philosophy of studio work, Mr. Eno tries out another big metaphor: cowboys versus farmers.

Series three is one big metaphor for the war in Iraq.

But I'm not certain he's cut out for apocalypse literature, which favours the bold statement and the big metaphor.

In a spartan office looking across Lake Geneva to the French Alps, Henry Markram is searching for a suitably big metaphor to describe his latest project.

FOR a relatively little-known award, it inspires big metaphors.

But when those big metaphors stand on their own, it starts to read like overperformance.

Directed by Roy Ward Baker ("Five Million Years to Earth"), this black-and-white film from 1958 resists Big Metaphors in favor of a measured tone and careful detailing.

Whether you're dealing with Shakespeare or the great fairy stories, they are all great big metaphors for human nature.

These metaphors are the promissory backdrop to grand synthetic biology discourses, while the 'small' metaphors of tinkering and play distract, to some extent, from the deterministic and somewhat intimidating flavour of these big metaphors.